Gerund: baling. Usually a cotton or hay bale, which was cotton or hay compacted into a rectangular cross section bundle and held together by wire (baling wire for hay) or steel bands (for cotton).
: a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery; also: friar.
Dutty Boukman (Boukman Dutty) (died November 1791) was a slave in Haiti who was one of the most visible early leaders of the Haitian Revolution. For an insightful article on the function of religion in the Haitian Revolution, see âThe Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, The Discourse of âFreedom from Below,â and the Politics of Godâ by Celucien L. Joseph, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 2:9 (June 2011):1-33.